OPEN MARRIAGE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Open marriage

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Open marriage

noun

A marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other.

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"Open marriage" Quotes from Famous Books

... come to this court of justice, and my word is doubted ere I can prove the truth. Is it for judges to assail one so? Five years ago I was married secretly, in St. Michael's Church—secretly, because Philip d'Avranche urged it, pleaded for it. An open marriage, he said, would hinder his promotion. We were wedded, and he left me. War broke out. I remained silent according to my promise to him. Then came the time when in the States of Bercy he denied that he had a wife. From the hour I ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

Words linked to "Open marriage" : spousal relationship, wedlock, marriage, union, matrimony